Team

Fernando Camacho received a PhD and the European Doctorate mention in 2004 with a thesis on operational retrieval of vegetation variables from remote sensing BRDF data from the University of Valencia. Fernando is involved in the Land‐SAF project since 1999 on development and validation of vegetation products from EUMETSAT (MSG/SEVIRI and EPS/AVHRR) sensor data. His main areas of reserach are BRDF, retrieval of bio-geophysical variables (LAI, FAPAR, CWC, Biomass) from satellite optical data using empirical and physically based methods, validation of remote sensing products, and acquisition and upscaling of ground data in field campaigns for cal/val.

He has been involved in many cal/val campaigns for ESA (e.g., DAISEX, SPARC, SEN2FLEX, SEN3EXP, VALSE2, FRM4VEG) and Copernicus Global Land (> 50 campaigns were collected during FP7 ImagineS project). Since 2004 (his post-doc in Medias-France) he is very much involved in the validation and quality assessment of remote sensing products (reflectance, albedo, vegetation), in particular for the Copernicus Global Land and Copernicus Climate Change Service.  He has authored more than 25 peer-reviewed papers, about 100 conference papers, and many technical reports. He is involved in scientific comittees of international workshops. Currently, he is Vice Chair of the Land Product Validation subgroup of the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation.

In 2006 Fernando founded the EOLAB company and since then he is working as CEO, but he is also acting as Project Manager providing to the technical people guidance with his scientific background on remote sensing.

Jorge Sánchez received the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2011. Jorge developed his master thesis in EOLAB about the validation of the global albedo product from SPOT/VGT.

Since mid 2011 Jorge is working at EOLAB as a research engineer in remote sensing data processing and quality assessment of Earth observation products. He participated in a number of projects, such as EUMETSAT CDOP, FP7 Geoland-2, ESA VALSE-2 and currently in the Copernicus Global Land Service and Climate change Service for quality assessment of reflectance, albedo and vegetation global products. Jorge is the main data processing engineer of the company and he has strong technical skills, with expertise in several programming languages for software development, graphic analysis and databases. Since early 2014 he is responsible for the technical managing and processing within the laboratory, mainly for Quality Assessment.

Vicente Garcia received a Bsc., Msc. PhD degree in 2007, 2010 and 2013, respectively, for the University of Valencia. Vicente’s research interest focuses on the physical processes of thermal infrared remote sensing, like the retrieval of land surface temperature land surface emissivity, atmospheric parameter measurement and estimation of energy fluxes exchange between surface and atmosphere.

Vicente joined our team in December 2017 with a contract under the Torres Quevedo program (PTQ-16-08578). Currently, his duties in EOALB are focused in the study of the evapotranspiration term, estimated from remote sensing techniques, for application in efficient managing of crop practices.

Enrique Martinez was graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2018. He developed his master thesis in EOLAB, designing a web tool for albedo products validation. Recently, he was graduated in M.Sc in Telecommunications Engineering (2020).

Enrique Martínez joined our team at EOLAB in July 2019 and he is working as Research Engineer collaborating in support of the quality assurance of vegetation and radiation Earth Observation products for the Copernicus Global Land and Climate Change Services.

Carolina Roses was graduated in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2018. She studied master’s degree in  Electronic Engineering and she is developing her master thesis in EOLAB, making a method for cropland classification using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images.

Carolina Roses joined our team at EOLAB in July 2019 and she is working as Research Engineer collaborating in support of the quality assurance of vegetation and radiation Earth Observation products for the Copernicus Global Land and Climate Change Services.

Carolina Doña received the PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Valencia, Spain in 2017. Carolina started her research tasks in 2009 in the department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics of the University of Valencia (Spain). Her research interest is focused in optical remote sensing applied to water quality and environmental management. At the University of Valencia she was working on the retrieval of water quality parameters and hydrological patterns in Mediterranean wetlands through satellite images, in the acquisition and processing of ground data (water, soil and radiometry) and in field campaigns for calibration/validation of several sensors (SMOS-MIRAS, EOS-MODIS, METOP, Landsat-5,7, TRMM TMI…). In October 2017 she started a Postdoc position in the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia.  Currently her Postdoc research is focused on the retrieval of vegetation and hydrological patterns in Mediterranean wetlands through satellite images.

In January 2017 Carolina joined EOLAB S.L. as research scientist collaborating in the quality assurance of vegetation products for the Copernicus Global Land Service. She was research scientist in EOLAB until October 2017 when she started the Postdoc position in the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. Currently she is collaborating as Climate Change adviser in support of the Climate Change Awareness activities carried out by EOLAB.